Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opportunity. It's persuasive, far reaching and clandestine. And for better and worse, it frees the imagination from the everyday world. "I think that the online context can remove people from a proper understanding of reality and of the proper tests for truth," says Douglas Groothuis, a theologian and author of The Soul in Cyberspace. "How do you verify peoples' identity? How do you connect 'online' with real life...
...Internet allows different belief systems to meet and mate," adds Stephen O'Leary, author of Arguing the Apocalypse, which examines end-of-the-world religions. "What you get is this millennial stew, a mixture of many different belief systems." Which is the very way that the latest kinds of cultism have flourished. As it happens, that's also the way free thought develops generally. Real ideas sometimes rise from the muck, which is why free societies willingly put up with so much muck...
...playing author Leslie Charteris' mysterious superhero, Kilmer got $8 million, a share of gross profits and the possibility of not only starring in but also helping produce a sequel. "I've tripled my price tag in the past two years," he says, "by being very fortunate in getting Batman, and then by just putting my head down and working a lot. I've moved into a league of the more proven...
...future. Kids will not go to a campus; they will work and study at home or at the office. Degrees will not be needed. When someone wants a job, he will be tested and given an internship for a period of time. It is a shame that both author Larson and President Clinton have missed the boat and are still in the Dark Ages. BILL DIECKS Houston...
APPOINTED. ROBERT PINSKY, 56, poet and author of a 1994 translation of the Inferno that put Dante on U.S. best-seller lists; as the nation's poet laureate; in Washington...